Caroline Girvan 2026- sore but still scrolling.

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I am following Fuel on schedule so have done all the workouts so far. It is my first live programme as I only got the app in January, and was distracted from Play, wanting to try out all the other app series and programmes. I am enjoying Fuel a lot, and I have been having DOMS on the appropriate muscles targeted the day after a few times. I can still feel my quads after the leg day on Wednesday. I don't mind that Fuel is less intense than say Beastmode - we can always go back to that or the epics if we feel like a big challenge. Like others, when there have been circuits in Fuel I have added a third one when I've felt like it, or some other add on.

Caroline is using lighter weights, in today's full body for instance she was using 7.5kg for makers where she would have used 10kg minimum previously. In the spirit of you vs you, I guess she just feels like that works best for her at the moment, for whatever reason.

You have to do what is best for you and lift safely.
Had a great Jasper upper body today with some really interesting variations on standard moves which certainly hit differently like a Powell raise and bent over trap raise.

Today he had single arm press into push press again- push press for when you get tired of the strict press. I managed 12.5 kg strict presses which I could never have done with Caroline . It’s odd because the sessions are 30 minutes and don’t seem like there is much going on but I am always sweating a lot and my heart rate is high and muscles are worked and sore - upper body gains have been amazing which I really happy about.
I have found a decent compact bench on Amazon that I can store under sofa so that I can explore different angles for chest pressing etc.
it was really quite scary moving away from Caroline- I had been with her for 5 years and I sort of bought into the hype that there was nothing better. Not saying Jasper is better - just different in his approach which I need right now.
It feels like I am having an affair or something- mind you Jasper is not hard on the old eyes 😂😂

Well i did day 6 (lunges day) and 3 days later and at risk of sounding like the fan fanatics on the app and FB, I am still hobbling about and wincing when I sit on the loo!!
Obviously not done lunges for a while 🤣🤣

Somehow I’m already on day 20 of HR 3.0 (where does the time go?). Today was a particularly intense upper body day - they don’t usually leave me quite so sweaty!

There have been a few ‘mobility’ days in this programme, which I really like. I don’t usually do the cool down (I know, I know) and it’s nice to just stretch occasionally.

@BigButtons would you mind sharing the link to your bench? I am looking for one for my gym set up.

i haven’t really kept up with the thread - how come so many are leaving Caroline? I have never been on her app or followed her on social media, I just dip into her free YouTubes. I’m up to day 8 of iron now, I’m really enjoying them. I have enjoyed not running so much and focussing on this instead. I think it would be hard to do both well, CG is very leg heavy isn’t it?

anyway over the weekend I am going to get myself up to day on the programme so I think that means doing 2 sessions, although I sometimes lump the upper body in with a leg heavy session and do a double.